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CREATURE

The Centre for Creative Arts, Cultures and Engagement (CREATURE) brings together interdisciplinary research in the creative arts, its practice, cultural impact and societal engagement.

CREATURE hosts a range of disciplines, including:

Cultural and creative industries
  • Cultural studies
Material and visual culture
  • Design history
  • Fashion studies
  • Visual studies
Practice-based/led research
  • Curation
  • Fashion and textile
  • Filmmaking
  • Material research
  • Photography
  • Public art
  • Visual art
Drawing on our School of Art, Architecture and Design’s tradition of cross-disciplinary studio practice and collaboration, CREATURE members are uniquely placed to study the changing nature of the creative arts with cultures of materials, new aesthetics, creative processes of making and theorising, and understanding of cultural and creative production in an evolving society. 
Through writing, practice, commission and consultancy, CREATURE members have taken the dual role as academic researchers and art/cultural practitioners with many involved in activism, curation, journalism and the cultural and creative industries on a national and international level. 
 

PhD students

We welcome new PhD students in any of our subject areas or specialisms. If you are interested in undertaking a PhD with us, please contact Prof. Wessie Ling and Dr Jacek Ludwig Scarso for an initial chat.

Working for CREATURE

Our centre recruits postgraduates as event assistants via our university Met Temps on a rolling basis. If you are interested in exploring these opportunities, please contact Prof. Wessie Ling and Dr Jacek Ludwig Scarso for an initial chat. 

Performers in the Tate for The Pecking Order, by London Met's Dr Jacek Ludwig Scarso

CREATURE Leadership team:

Director

Prof. Wessie Ling

Deputy Director 

Dr Jacek Ludwig Scarso

Members

Maria-Irina Georgescu
Margaret Gold

 

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Latest news from CREATURE

London Met helping shape community-led legacy mural for Europe’s first Anti-Apartheid museum

Professor Wessie Ling at London Met leads a partnership project to commemorate the anti-apartheid struggle’s history, highlighting its ongoing relevance and global resonance.

Five students stand on top of a wooden deck in a woodland clearing

London Met Design Research Wins Ecological Citizenship Funding

George Fereday, School of Art, Architecture and Design, leads collaborative project to enhance community engagement with urban woodland.
Two men standing in front of the colourful banner

Dr Jacek Ludwig Scarso continues his collaboration with British Council Hong Kong

London Met lecturer awarded funding from a British Council to support creative partnerships between the UK and Hong Kong.

CREATURE hosts London Sculpture Week Inaugural Symposium

Research Centre for Creative Arts, Cultures and Engagement hosted London Sculpture Week's Inaugural Symposium this year
Two people stand in front of a conference banner, holding a document

London Met Academic Delivers Keynote at International Conference Featured on National TV

Recognition of Professor Wessie Ling's work highlights London Met's collaboration with global institutions.

Entangled Threads: Revisiting the Clothes, Cloth & Culture Group

CREATURE research centre director, Professor Wessie Ling has co-organised an event exploring cross-cultural entanglements and intersectional identities through clothes and cloth.

CREATURE partners The Liliesleaf Trust UK secure £1.2 million for anti-apartheid legacy project

London Met's Centre for Creative Arts, Cultures and Engagement (CREATURE) will collaborate with the Trust on a rolling programme of art based heritage projects.

London Met to host new exhibition on East London's Brady Girls' Club

'We are the Brady Girls' will be exhibited at the Aldgate campus through October and November.
A selection of products in leather and other materials made by designer simon hasan

Making Matters 2.0

Second annual exhibition by the Making Matters research group featured work by twenty-three members of staff from the School of Art, Architecture and Design

George Fereday shortlisted for prestigious Wood Award

London Met lecturer's Mixed-Deciduous Beam project highlights the untapped potential of hardwood for the UK construction sector.

London Met lecturer delivers keynote at Nobel Peace Center

Dr Anna Marazuela Kim addresses the theme of Culture as a Human Right to open Oslo World 2022, an international festival dedicated to showcasing global artistic and cultural expressions

Anti-Apartheid Legacy: Material Culture, Heritage and Now

London Met alumna Dr Ekua McMorris will develop a project focusing on material culture derived from the Anti-Apartheid Movement, in collaboration with CREATURE and the Liliesleaf Trust.

London Met Professor takes over the Tate Modern shop for winter

Associate Professor Patrick Brill, who goes by the pseudonym Bob and Roberta Smith, has curated the Tate Edit shop space until 2023.

London Met lecturer featured in Venice Design Week

Dr Jacek Ludwig Scarso delivered a speech on his recent work and collaborations in the famous City of Bridges.

Africa Fashion: shifting the geography of global fashion

London Met's Professor Wessie Ling will take part in a conference at the Victoria & Albert Museum, in conjunction with their Africa Fashion exhibition.

Image details

Banner Image: A Book of Burning Matches: Collecting Installation Art Documents, Nico de Oliveira. (2015) Photo credit: Franziska Nicolaus. 
Main Image: The Pecking Order at Tate Exchange, Dr Jacek Ludwig Scarso. (2019)